[svlug] help transfering data over 1394 cable

[Scott Hess]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> > Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> > > I guess it is probably obvious (not sure) that ssh and fish is probably
> > > not going to cut it, as it seems I am only getting 700 kbs or so over my
> > > subnet, and I really should be using 1394 (firewire) anyway.
> >
> > Not at all obvious to me.  Assuming you have gigabit ethernet
>
> Okay, this is interesting.  Maybe it is an issue with the switch / hub
> between the two machines.  I have a Netgear en108tp hub.  Maybe that's the
> problem.  Not sure.  Here is an image and specs on that puppy:
>
> http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/EN108TP.asp

Whoa.  "8 Port 10 BASE-T Ethernet Hub".  The bad parts of this are "10
base-T" and "hub", you have a huge (err, make that "tiny") bottleneck
there.  Instead of spending any time at all on firewire, you should
head to Fry's and drop $20 on a 100 mbit switch.  Things should go 10x
or 20x faster right out of the gate.  Or maybe $40 or $50 for a 1000
mbit switch which would make things another 5x to 10x faster (so
around 100x faster than your current setup).  Either way should bring
the transfer within the reach of your regular networking tools.

-scott